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IE8 is the best! Wait, what?! Who wrote this??

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Post June 18th, 2009, 6:05 am

IE8 has better security, privacy, ease of use, and much, much more. Wait, what?! M$ posted up a (biased) comparison of Internet Explorer vs. Firefox vs. Chrome. This one should get some nice replies :)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx
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Post June 18th, 2009, 7:13 am

Seriously, why would I even click on that site? As you already noted, it has to be biased. All those benefits of IE could be true if they ever get it to work.
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Post June 18th, 2009, 7:18 am

It is kind of amusing to read. The part about compatibility is what I find most amusing:

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Internet Explorer 8 is more compatible with more sites on the Internet than any other browser.


I still find broken websites in IE8 that force me to use their compatiblity link when these sites already work fine in FF. Why can't all websites just work normally?
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Post June 18th, 2009, 7:43 am

I thought that one to be particularly brave on their part, too. You would think the whole standards issue would be enough to make them think twice about saying that. Even for compatibility mode, I've had to alter sites (mostly css - Joomla templates and the like) to get the layout right. It's like adjusting for 2 new browsers.
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Post June 18th, 2009, 8:12 am

lol this is as funny as reading the "statistics" from UW Madison about how many innocents were on death row in Illinois a while back that made the governor revoke the death penalty.

Love the people who have an idea and find facts to back it up.
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Post June 18th, 2009, 8:12 am

I love how Safari doesn't even get a mention. Granted, I'm not a fan of Safari but it has been around quite a bit longer than Chrome.
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Post June 18th, 2009, 8:13 am

Apparently, MS is resorting to propaganda methods used by governments of the world. No matter what I see, there is always someone to tell me that I don't see it. I see IE8 is garbage & MS is telling me that it isn't.
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Post June 18th, 2009, 8:14 am

Speaking of missing browsers, where is opera on there, or konquerer.
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Post June 18th, 2009, 8:16 am

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Speaking of missing browsers, where is opera on there, or konquerer.

Yes, definitely Opera. What the hell?
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Post June 18th, 2009, 2:48 pm

How about a FF developer's take on it? :) Love it.
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Post June 18th, 2009, 3:03 pm

I love the standard's compliant line... IE8 ACID3 Results I didn't know 20/100 was compliant :-)
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Post June 18th, 2009, 4:12 pm

Has anyone looked at the 'myth busting' section? I missed it the first time around. Must have been the laughter. heh Equally entertaining.
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Post June 19th, 2009, 6:54 am

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I love how Safari doesn't even get a mention. Granted, I'm not a fan of Safari but it has been around quite a bit longer than Chrome.

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Speaking of missing browsers, where is opera on there, or konquerer.


Safari and Opera were in the original draft, but the developers couldn't get management to sign-off on descriptions like

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Holy ****! These two completely blow us away here


I guess they decided that if these two browsers were going to induce foul language from the developers the browsers had to go.
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Post June 19th, 2009, 10:11 am

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Myth #4: Internet Explorer doesn't play well with Web standards.

The Real Deal: Internet Explorer 8 passes more of the World Wide Web Consortium's test cases than any other browser.

My personal favourite. :)

And IE more reliable than Firefox? Till date, Firefox has never crashed on me. Need I say anything about IE?
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Post June 20th, 2009, 11:33 am

I like the bit where they say that passing css2.1 makes them more up to day that say... o I don't know firefox or something after all we on css3 now . Mind I do know I have this thing about css3 compatibly so maybe its just me
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